Auchentaller not only painted the beach scene at Grado, he moved there, living out the rest of his life in this comfortable little island town. His travel illustration contains the text from which the design of our font Auchentaller is drawn. The text translates: 'Seaside resort : Grado / Austrian coastal land'. Please see our gallery images to see a map locating Grado, as well as Auchentaller's painting of the resort.
Auchentaller is a monoline all-cap font, light and open in design , with a lot of typically art nouveau letter forms. Included in our font are a number of ligatures. As is frequently seen in designs by German speakers, the umlaut is embedded in the O & U below the tops of the letters. This approach led to two whimsies: a happy umlauted O and a sad umlauted U. This font has a clean, crisp look that is very appealing and very distinctive.
Auchentaller ML represents a major extension of the original release, with the following changes:
1. Added glyphs for the 1250 Central Europe, the 1252 Turkish and the 1257 Baltic Code Pages. Add glyphs to complete standard 1252 Western Europe Code Page. Special glyphs relocated and assigned Unicode codepoints, some in Private Use area. Total of 336 glyphs.
2. Added OpenType GSUB layout features: pnum, liga, salt & ornm.
3. Added 116 kerning pairs.
4. Revised vertical metrics for improved cross-platform line spacing.
5. Revised 'J'.
6. Minor refinements to various glyph outlines.
7. Inclusion of both tabular & proportional numbers.
8. Inclusion of both standard acute and Polish kreska with choice of alternate accented glyphs for c,n,r,s & z.
Please note that some older applications may only be able to access the Western Europe character set (approximately 221 glyphs).
The zip package includes two versions of the font at no extra charge. There is an OTF version which is in Open PS (Post Script Type 1) format and a TTF version which is in Open TT (True Type)format. Use whichever works best for your applications.
Font Family: Auchentaller
Tags: 1900s, all caps, art nouveau, avant garde, caps only, clean, crisp, decorative, display, geometric, italy, retro, revival, sans, sans serif, thin, vintage